by victoriab | Nov 27, 2008 | Insomnia
There is an interesting article on Beliefnet’s blog, Beyond Blue: A spiritual journey to mental health, in which Terese J. Borchard attempts to draw a line between the experience of loss and spiritual dryness which John of the Cross described as the Dark Night...
by victoriab | Nov 27, 2008 | Happiness
A recent study from the University of Maryland shows an inverse correlation between the amount of time one spends watching television and one’s personal sense of happiness. In other words, one can detect how miserable a person is by measuring how much...
by victoriab | Nov 21, 2008 | Methodologies, Blog, Creating Transformation, Spiritual Counseling, Spirituality
By Jess Austin Michalik, MA I first became interested in the Tarot deck after reading the graphic novel, Promethea, by Alan Moore while studying religion and mysticism at Harvard Divinity School. Where before, I had...
by victoriab | Nov 20, 2008 | Happiness
There is an interesting article in Slate Magazine today about an English group called the School of Life, which offers “meticulously art directed” classes that include learning the arts of conversation and how to live one’s life–and even to...
by victoriab | Nov 19, 2008 | Relaxation
Jesus said, “Wretched is the body that depends on a body, and wretched is the soul that depends upon these two.” ———–Gospel of Thomas (Logion 87) The spiritual life demands an entirely new orientation. We’ve been looking at our feet. We’ve been...